[152] Hermann. Gygas. Loc. cit.
[153] On this subject see Königshoven, who has preserved very valuable original proceedings. The most important are, the criminal examinations of ten Jews, at Chillon, on the Lake of Geneva, held in September and October, 1348.—V. Appendix. They produced the most strange confessions, and sanctioned, by the false name of justice, the blood-thirsty fanaticism which lighted the funeral piles. Copies of these proceedings were sent to Bern and Strasburg, where they gave rise to the first persecutions against the Jews.—V. also the original Document of the offensive and defensive Alliance between Berthold von Götz, Bishop of Strasburg, and many powerful lords and nobles, in favor of the city of Strasburg, against Charles IV. The latter saw himself compelled, in consequence, to grant to that city an amnesty for the Jewish persecutions, which in our days would be deemed disgraceful to an imperial crown. Not to mention many other documents, which no less clearly shew the spirit of the 14th century, p. 1021. f.
[154] Guillelm de Nangis. p. 110.
[155] “Curationem omnem respuit pestis confirmata.”—Chalin, p. 33.
[156] Jacob. Francischini de Ambrosiis. In the Appendix to the Istorie Pistolesi. Muratori, Tom. XI. p. 528.
[157] Gentilis de Fulgineo, Consilia. De Peste cons. I. II. fol. 76. 77. Venet. 1514. fol.
[158] “Venenosa putredo circa partes cordis et pulmonis de quibus exeunte venenoso vapore, periculum est in vicinitatibus.” Cons. I. fol. 76, a.
[159] Dr. Maclean’s notion that the doctrine of contagion was first promulgated in the year 1547, by Pope Paul III. &c., thus falls to the ground, together with all the arguments founded on it.—See Maclean on Epid. and Pestilent. Diseases, 8vo. 1817, Pt. II. Book II. ch. 3. 4.—Transl. note.
[160] Lippitudo contagione spectantium oculos afficit.—Chalin de Vinario, p. 149.
[161] See the Author’s Geschichte der Heilkunde, Vol. II. P. III.